American / Russian Achievements
First satellite launched by the Soviet Union.
What is Sputnik 1?
The year that Sputnik was launched.
What is 1957?
The Mars rover that landed in Gale Crater in 2012 to study habitability.
What is the Curiosity Rover?
The first American human spaceflight program.
What is the Mercury Project?
The name of the first American space station.
What is SkyLab?
The first living creature to orbit Earth in 1957
What is Laika?
The year that Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space.
What is 1961?
The first space probe to Mars that successfully soft-landed on the planet in 1976.
What is Viking 1?
This NASA program included the first American spacewalk.
The is the Gemini Project?
The first international human space mission between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.
What is Apollo–Soyuz Test Project?
The first American satellite to orbit Earth, launched in 1958
What is Explorer 1?
In this year Neil Armstrong walked on the moon.
What is 1969?
This space probe conducted the first flyby of Pluto in 2015.
What is New Horizons?
This Apollo mission landed the first humans on the Moon.
What is Apollo 11?
This space probe conducted the first flyby of Pluto in 2015.
What is New Horizons?
The first human in space in 1961.
Who is Yuri Gagarin?
The year the International Space Station launched.
What is 1998?
This space probe arrives at Saturn in 2004, a journey of nearly seven years.
What is Cassini-Huygens?
This space shuttle mission ended in tragedy in 1986.
What is the Challenger?
This telescope, launched in 1990 revolutionized astronomy.
What is Hubble Space Telescope?
The first American to orbit Earth in 1962.
Who is John Glenn?
The year Artemis II will send astronauts to the moon.
What is 2026?
Twin space probes launched in 1977 to explore the outer planets. These probes are still sending data today.
What are Viking1 and 2?
This U.S. shuttle docked with the Russian space station Mir in 1995.
What is Atlantis?
This project joined U.S. and Russian modules in 1998 to form a permanent orbital station.
What is the International Space Station (ISS)?